Geluiden uit Afrika en Nieuw-Guinea Side A

Sound from Africa and New Guinea. The tape is in a green orchestra picture Scotch 150 box on a brandless spool, speed 9,5 cm/sec. Side A starts with a recording of a radio broadcast, a musical journey through New Guinea. It is not clear who speaks it could be Van Wengen wo worked for the Museum of Ethnology in Leiden and who made a number of radio broadcasts or J.C. Anceaux who made the original recordings that are presented as examples. The recording is several times cut of as at 1’31 after the second example, at 1’43 comments cut of, then as an example of an arousal song the sereme, at 2’35 comments cut of, the beginning if next example also shortended, 2’47 Nimboran comments cut of and beginning comments about kangaroos shortened, cut of at 3’02 and then continued, dow mamum comments before song on return of a headhunting expedition nowadays part of the koreri songs, example,  comments on this musical journey through New Guinea we have not yet been, cut of 5’40, at 5’42 fall in comment on the garden,  role of spirits in getting a good harvest with music example, 6’40 until now traditional songs and now a song that has changed  under influence of Christianity, before it was a song for the souls or spirits of the dead people that hat to go to Meos Befondi but nowadays the texts has changed in that the souls have to be brought there because of Christ. 7’55 ending announcement These were sounds of the fringe of our kingdom. 8’06 another example, 8’24 what you heard before is a song of the N’dani boys, you can hear how one leads and the other follow. That can go on the whole night especially when it is full moon and them they come next morning having not slept on their job., 8’45 another voice I ley you hear to the first song, 8’49 example, 2x another sound shortly in-between,  10’17 comment about song about the death of a human eating the crocodile in the Sentani lake this is also the end of this musical talk, 10’45 example, 11’39 mondharp, 11’44 comment the others wait, that the people don’t work, the tension ends in the afternoon at 20 to three, 12’12 tifa  song, 12’28 comment broken off, 12’29 other tifa song Anceaux recording, 12’44 flute and drum orchestra, 13’30 end, 13’33 choir song Hai Tanakuh Papua, 15’02 end, 15’11 tifa song, 16’14 end, 16’25  tifa song, 16’41 end, 16’47 tifa song, 17’32 end, 17’43 tifa group song, 19’58 end, 19’59 talking, 20’04 new tifa song, 22’14 end, 22’29 once popular western swing music , 24’40 new song, 27’33 new song, 30’31 new song, 32’53 new song, 35’18 end.
The digitised tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl

Side A is 35’18

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